While people normally recoil at being tricked, April Fools’ Day on April 1 appears to be the one time annually that fart ...
LONDON — (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. Gordievsky died March 4 in ...
Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police said on Saturday that they are not treating his death as suspicious. Historians consider Gordievsky one of ...
Mussayev is not the first former KGB officer to make such a claim. Years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now living in Washington, D.C., was a key source for Craig Unger’s book American ...
Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be Britain's most valuable spy inside Russia's intelligence agencies and spent many years leaking information to ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the cold war, it sometimes seemed that the KGB was better at recruiting western spies than the west ...